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The all seeing eye. And my taxxe was paid by quoting a cat. Well played me.
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Agony Aunt posted:"I will be buying the game based on this and the other awesome helmets I've seen lately. I'm definitely in for one."
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Mar 19, 2020 11:36
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One lady in Italy was in lockdown with her dead husband on the living room floor for 4 days because nobody had time to come pick up the corpse during the quarantine.
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Mar 19, 2020 11:57
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Bootcha posted:Not the dumbest thread derail we've had. This is an understatement.
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Mar 19, 2020 12:41
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Star Citizen - ain't no derail dumb enough, Ship sale tactics low enough, Roadmap issues big enough, To keep me from buying an Idris
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Mar 19, 2020 12:54
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Ramadu posted:bog paper? britain truly is a perverse island and deserves its fate poo poo-scrape,Arse-wad,Bog roll.
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Mar 19, 2020 12:59
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so the whole new personal inventory system / weapons thing is just an inventory wheel thank you star citizen for always doing what no game has done before
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Mar 19, 2020 13:10
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Mar 19, 2020 13:40
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TheAgent posted:so the whole new personal inventory system / weapons thing is just an inventory wheel Hey stop asking for miracles, SSOCS is in. e: Anyway, isn't the personal inventory system way more than that? Like having physicalised chocolate bar wrappers? And no pockets? Pixelate fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 13:42
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Bootcha posted:Not the dumbest thread derail we've had. Hey, facts were given, reason was applied, and minds were changed. It was the exact opposite of what happens when you deal with the cultists.
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Mar 19, 2020 13:48
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Steam game players at new all time record highs I too am thankful that 
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Hav posted:Closed last week. Most of the Spring Breakers that came to Florida are getting drunk on the beaches. Well I guess I'll just stay home and celebrate by seeing nobody at all and being alone! Just like every normal day these days! :3
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Mar 19, 2020 14:17
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juggalo baby coffin posted:edit: also agony aunt is dumb as poo poo Not cool man. And i did withdraw my statement after being provided some good counter arguments.
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Mar 19, 2020 14:33
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Scruffpuff posted:I meant specifically US culture. Like people are showing up to work, the same people that work from home because they can when there was no outbreak, so the boss can see them and they think that will make them look like harder workers or more dedicated or something. The work culture in the US isn't related in any way to merit, ability, or productivity - it's how much you can make it look like you're a dedicated badass who will swim through liquid poo poo to sit in a cubicle, later than anyone else, taking shorter or no lunches, even if your actual contribution is less than zero. I know this isn't Star Citizen, but something I'm dealing with with a number of smaller companies is that the owner doesn't trust people to actually work from home. So it's not just the worker, but also the business owner who doesn't believe a work from home system can function.
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Mar 19, 2020 15:14
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IronicDongz posted:I was going to say that the only kind of person I could think of who would possibly conceptually like that helmet would be like, people who draw gay warframe porn, and even then it's not super likely Oh shoot you're right! I forgot that group! The ones who like to specialize tanks, planes, and various pieces of military equipment. Not quite the "anime girl is wearing the Bismarck as an outfit" but "the Bismarck itself is somehow alive and has a throbbing penis and or drippy vagina". Gosh I should have realized that sooner but I totally forgot that sect of people even despite me drawing a sexualized Merchantmangirl a while ago and literally feeding that community!
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Mar 19, 2020 15:24
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The Titanic posted:Oh shoot you're right! I forgot that group! The ones who like to specialize tanks, planes, and various pieces of military equipment. Not quite the "anime girl is wearing the Bismarck as an outfit" but "the Bismarck itself is somehow alive and has a throbbing penis and or drippy vagina". Bisko-chan has both  And the most bizarre one (in my mind) is the one where castles have become anime girls. That one beats "hey Atila the Hun, Leonardo da Vinci, and Nero are actually hawt girls! umu!" trucutru fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 15:31
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Markets hit hard by Corona from S&P500 through to silver, but not Star Citizen funding. Around a million per week...
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Mar 19, 2020 15:57
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The Titanic posted:Well I guess I'll just stay home and celebrate by seeing nobody at all and being alone! Just like every normal day these days! :3 "Oh, it's the meek! Oh, I'm glad they get something."
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Mar 19, 2020 16:10
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Agony Aunt posted:Not cool man. <Manly hug'n'squeeze, but responsibly distant> It's alright, you're among twats.
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Mar 19, 2020 16:14
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Beexoffel posted:Markets hit hard by Corona from S&P500 through to silver, but not Star Citizen funding. this makes absolutely no loving sense at all but then again this entire project never really has so maybe jpg futures will be the hot new commodity in the barren wastelands of the New West
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Mar 19, 2020 16:16
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TheAgent posted:this makes absolutely no loving sense at all but then again this entire project never really has so maybe jpg futures will be the hot new commodity in the barren wastelands of the New West Yes I look forward to bartering VR equipment for potable water.
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The Titanic posted:Oh shoot you're right! I forgot that group! The ones who like to specialize tanks, planes, and various pieces of military equipment. Not quite the "anime girl is wearing the Bismarck as an outfit" but "the Bismarck itself is somehow alive and has a throbbing penis and or drippy vagina". I played most of those in the past (and currently have KanColle in another tab), and let me assure you, most players wouldn't care about this - it's not cute at all and the style is more off-putting to me than anything. After carefully examining it and realizing it has realistic animal-ish fang, I am of the opinion that it might please furries, but I am not entirely sure (especially because I don't participate in that community or come into contact with them often). One of the two helmet-supportive comments pasted here later seemed to be supporting the theory, so that's something, I guess? trucutru posted:Bisko-chan has both No, she doesn't, you sicko! D:
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Mar 19, 2020 16:23
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Like at this point, releasing nothing for 3 months besides the carrack that already had a ton of presales, they are doing the best ever and will take in almost double their revenue from last year this doesn't seem shady at all
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Mar 19, 2020 16:23
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Mar 19, 2020 16:27
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There's another one of those lovely 'Don't tell my wife' / 'She spends the same on shoes anyway' threads on the sub..."[img posted:https://i.imgur.com/jkBLM2b.png[/img]"]Long past second tier concierge and also i have gained a free gladious from 10 referrals... 8of them are me :P
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:it makes a certain amount of sense if their dedicated whales are sitting around with nothing better to do than purchase more status are they really buying more of the same ships they already own in record numbers in a time of serious world financial uncertainty? I mean, I guess its possible but highly unlikely here's the funding over the last few years...the numbers! Jan 2013: $266,125 Feb 2013: $802,494 Mar 2013: $180,073 Total Q1 2013: $1,248,692 Jan 2014: $2,099,081 Feb 2014: $1,741,103 Mar 2014: $1,586,076 Total Q1 2014: $5,426,260 Jan 2015: $3,270,829 Feb 2015: $2,399,668 Mar 2015: $3,183,965 Total Q1 2015: $8,854,462 Jan 2016: $2,643,754 Feb 2016: $2,139,933 Mar 2016: $2,010,472 Total Q1 2016: $6,794,159 Jan 2017: $1,753,012 Feb 2017: $1,966,022 Mar 2017: $1,310,900 Total Q1 2017: $5,029,934 Jan 2018: $2,188,144 Feb 2018: $1,745,333 Mar 2018: $1,977,863 Total Q1 2018: $5,911,340 Jan 2019: $2,847,892 Feb 2019: $2,631,890 Mar 2019: $3,053,761 Total Q1 2019: $8,533,543 Jan 2020: $5,213,093 Feb 2020: $4,612,640 Mar 2020: $3,277,437 (so far) Total Q1 2020: $13,103,170 !!!! As you can see, the last few months have almost doubled CIG's revenue from the same time period last year according to their tracker. Jan 2020 is an 83% jump in funding, Feb 2020 is a 75% jump in funding and March 2020 is looking like it will be at least a 60% or higher jump in funding. Everyone sitting around doing nothing but JPGs now makes sense, but what about the last two months can really explain the huge loving jump in purchases?
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Pixelate posted:There's another one of those lovely 'Don't tell my wife' / 'She spends the same on shoes anyway' threads on the sub... Amazing, every single sentence of that post is just 
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Mar 19, 2020 16:55
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Pixelate posted:There's another one of those lovely 'Don't tell my wife' / 'She spends the same on shoes anyway' threads on the sub... people thinking Star Citizen ships were the next big digital moneymaker will never stop being loving hilarious
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The way the light collects and then the gun seems to go "boop" makes it look like it's full of air and it's shooting like nerf balls or something rather than feeling like a killer weapon full of death. Also I'm glad the guy thought he was winning only to really lose for one reason suddenly. 
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Mar 19, 2020 16:59
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It's ok to lie and be unfaithful to your wife, as long as it's with Star Citizen!
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Beexoffel posted:Markets hit hard by Corona from S&P500 through to silver, but not Star Citizen funding. Pixelate posted:There's another one of those lovely 'Don't tell my wife' / 'She spends the same on shoes anyway' threads on the sub... 
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Mar 19, 2020 17:10
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I feel like the guys making the animations for guns in Star Citizen have never poo poo or even watched a video of people shooting guns. I'm not like a huge gun nut but I own guns and try to shoot every so often, and the gunplay looks weak and strange even to me as a non gun pro. The animation doesn't feel powerful at all. But this is kind of the CIG paradox. They spend a ton on animations and motion capture, but anything that animates seems to be their weakest pieces. It definitely all looks better as a jpeg rather than an animated gif or video. 
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Mar 19, 2020 17:13
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TheAgent posted:(...) CIG produced nothing. This means they need money. Time to buy few more ships to show them goons!
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Mar 19, 2020 17:15
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TheAgent posted:but those guys already have everything Option 1: The marketing push is really working and people are buying in big. Problem: Once people get playing, are they really going to be as impressed as when they were sold on the game by shills and marketing? The blowback would be spectactular if this was the case. Option 2: CIG are cooking the books or have new investors they are not telling about and instead funneling it slowly into the funding tracker.
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Agony Aunt posted:Option 1: The marketing push is really working and people are buying in big. Problem: Once people get playing, are they really going to be as impressed as when they were sold on the game by shills and marketing? The blowback would be spectactular if this was the case. it will be especially apparent after what happens in April funding tracker wise
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The Titanic posted:I know this isn't Star Citizen, but something I'm dealing with with a number of smaller companies is that the owner doesn't trust people to actually work from home. So it's not just the worker, but also the business owner who doesn't believe a work from home system can function. If a company owner can't trust someone to to work from home, then that person needs to reevaluate how they're measuring their employee's value and contributions to the company. An rear end in a seat is not work. If I told my boss I was working from home, he'd know in an hour or two if I was loving off, because my output would not be there. That's true of everyone in my company. I think it'll change as the old guard of "rear end in seat = working hard" die off and people start measuring actual results. We don't pay our people by the hour, we pay a salary to get a certain job done and encourage autonomy. Get it done in 20 hours? Go have fun. Gonna take you 60? Then you better get cracking. I've found that the best employees somehow magically manage to get all their work done in slightly less than 40 hours consistently, whereas the chair-occupying clock-watchers seem to think they're getting paid for being seen. It's tough because the old guard are stubborn and insistent. My old (now retired) boss hated the idea of working from home because someone might get "distracted" by television or lose focus for 15 minutes, as if the office job was some kind of endurance event based on a clock. The reality is, if you get good people (can't stress that part enough) you're going to get more work out of them long-term specifically because they can take that poo poo break, or play a round of Halo Wars or some poo poo, then get back to the task with a fresh mind, and almost every last one of them works after business hours because that's when they either get a burst of energy, or an idea occurs to them, or they can't sleep, so they remote in and get buttloads of work done. TL:DR companies need to figure out what they're paying people for: attendance, or value. What is your payroll getting you in return, and how are you measuring it? Edit: also, Star Citizen. Scruffpuff fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Agony Aunt posted:Option 1: The marketing push is really working and people are buying in big. Problem: Once people get playing, are they really going to be as impressed as when they were sold on the game by shills and marketing? The blowback would be spectactular if this was the case. I don't really believe option 1. It would need to show big increase in number of registered players as well (assuming the old "half of what the tracker shows is buyers"), considering older players have bought most of the stuff already. There has been some increase, but it's not significantly bigger than before. Source of data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tMAP0fg-AKScI3S3VjrDW3OaLO4zgBA1RSYoQOQoNSI/edit#gid=1694467207 I can so-so believe December data with the sales and S42 promo video (however meh it was to me) and stuff, but ever since the spending is unbelievable - the YoY is record high, the graph of income is sharper rising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQh-xtWcAw
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VideoGames posted:Most likely true and I guess those were not reported because that is why I popped over this time. VG your new avatar is one of the best things I've seen in a long time. e: TheAgent posted:I'm deffo leaning to Option 3: Everything is Made Up and the Numbers Don't Matter lol you know that tracker is gonna stay at a rock steady $30,000 per day
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TheAgent posted:I'm deffo leaning to Option 3: Everything is Made Up and the Numbers Don't Matter This is the answer.
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TheAgent posted:As you can see, the last few months have almost doubled CIG's revenue from the same time period last year according to their tracker. Jan 2020 is an 83% jump in funding, Feb 2020 is a 75% jump in funding and March 2020 is looking like it will be at least a 60% or higher jump in funding.  I hadn't looked that deep into it. So it's even more than I thought!
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